About Digital Collections
Browse
Search only public domain materials
Search Browse About
Search only public domain materials
Items Collections Divisions
Digital Collections Using Images Using Data
Items Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz lecturing on Afro-Cuban music, assisted by three Black Cuban drummers playing batá drums, before a White audience in Havana, Cuba, on May 30, 1937

Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz lecturing on Afro-Cuban music, assisted by three Black Cuban drummers playing batá drums, before a White audience in Havana, Cuba, on May 30, 1937

More Details Cite This Item

5566979
300px
760px
All download options
Original Scan
Order Print

Library division & collection with this item:

LIBRARY DIVISION
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division

  • Baptism in community of Gullah descendants in North Carolina
  • Scene from the Broadway production of the American Negro Theatre's "Anna Lucasta," featuring (left to right) Canada Lee, Hilda Simms, Alice Childress and Alvin Childress
  • Publicity photograph of poet, publisher and performance artist Assotto Saint, circa 1991
  • Portrait of Mrs. Frances Anne Rollin Whipper
  • Portrait of Black Woman Holding White Child
  • Banquet in honor of Charles D.B. King, Secretary of State and President-elect of Liberia, held at Anderson's Assembly Rooms, in New York City, on September 22, 1919. In attendance are bibliophile Arthur A. Schomburg, journalist John E. Bruce and writer Maritcha Lyons.
  • Saint John's Methodist Church Sexton, Peter Williams, 1801
  • Portrait of James Baldwin
  • Funeral procession for a Ku Klux Klan member, held in Cold Spring, Putnam County, New York, 1920s.
  • Elease Perkins (second from left) with other teachers at the Harlem Academy
  • W.C. Handy with his wife Irma Louise Logan, and Dizzy Gillespie and an unidentified man
  • Edna Thomas as Lady Macbeth
  • Portrait of a man wearing patterned bowtie
  • Portrait of a woman, Bahia, Brazil
  • Benguela/ Angola/ Congo/ Monjolo
Previous Next

COLLECTION
Melville J. and Frances S. Herskovits photograph collection

View as book

SUB-COLLECTION
General (1907-196?)

This Item

View this item elsewhere:

Title
Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz lecturing on Afro-Cuban music, assisted by three Black Cuban drummers playing batá drums, before a White audience in Havana, Cuba, on May 30, 1937
Names
Herskovits, Frances S. (Frances Shapiro), 1897-1972 (Collector)
Herskovits, Melville J. (Melville Jean), 1895-1963 (Collector)
Collection

Melville J. and Frances S. Herskovits photograph collection

General (1907-196?)

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1937-05-30
Library locations
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division
Shelf locator: Sc Photo Meville J. and Frances S. Herskovits Collection
Shelf locator: Sc Photo Melville J. and Frances S. Herskovits Collection / Box 11
Topics
Ortiz, Fernando, 1881-1969
Blacks -- Cuba
Anthropologists -- Cuba
Drummers (Musicians) -- Cuba
Batá
Lectures and lecturing -- Cuba -- Havana
Genres
Photographs
Notes
Content: Original image has handwritten description on verso.
Physical Description
Gelatin silver prints
Extent: 13 x 18 cm ; black and white
Type of Resource
Still image
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b12490619
MSS Unit ID: 531904
Photo Order: 55742
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 4cef2a50-ae61-0133-a9ed-00505686a51c
Rights Statement
The copyright and related rights status of this item has been reviewed by The New York Public Library, but we were unable to make a conclusive determination as to the copyright status of the item. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.

Item timeline of events

  • 1897: Creator Born
  • 1937: Created
  • 1972: Creator Died
  • 2016: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

MLA Format

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz lecturing on Afro-Cuban music, assisted by three Black Cuban drummers playing batá drums, before a White audience in Havana, Cuba, on May 30, 1937" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1937. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/160580f0-b0d2-0133-0439-00505686a51c

Chicago/Turabian Format

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz lecturing on Afro-Cuban music, assisted by three Black Cuban drummers playing batá drums, before a White audience in Havana, Cuba, on May 30, 1937" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 22, 2024. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/160580f0-b0d2-0133-0439-00505686a51c

APA Format

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. (1937). Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz lecturing on Afro-Cuban music, assisted by three Black Cuban drummers playing batá drums, before a White audience in Havana, Cuba, on May 30, 1937 Retrieved from https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/160580f0-b0d2-0133-0439-00505686a51c

Wikipedia Citation

<ref name=NYPL>{{cite web | url=https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/160580f0-b0d2-0133-0439-00505686a51c | title= (still image) Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz lecturing on Afro-Cuban music, assisted by three Black Cuban drummers playing batá drums, before a White audience in Havana, Cuba, on May 30, 1937, (1937)|author=Digital Collections, The New York Public Library |accessdate=November 22, 2024 |publisher=The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations}}</ref>

Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz lecturing on Afro-Cuban music, assisted by three Black Cuban drummers playing batá drums, before a White audience in Havana, Cuba, on May 30, 1937